If This Is a Man - Primo Levi revolutionary fighting in Naples

revolutionary fighting in Naples

ten young Florentines take refuge in the countryside

Translator: Philip Gabriel

he has a nice pen but he’s not famous

Whether you’re learning alone or attending classes

If This Is a Man - Primo Levi revolutionary fighting in NaplesWith the moral stamina and intellectual poise of a twentieth century Titan, this slightly built, dutiful, unassuming chemist set out systematically to remember the German hell on earth, steadfastly to think it through, and then to render it comprehensible in lucid, unpretentious prose. He was profoundly in touch with the minutest workings of the most endearing human events and with the most contemptible. What has survived in Levi's writing isn't just